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UMTtOJU
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
www.dailytrojan.com
October 24,2006
Vol. CLIX, No. 44
Car thefts up, DPS refocuses
Car theft increased this year by 238 percent in one nearby area, decreased in others.
By SARAH SPRINGER
Staff Writer
Officials from the Department of Public Safety said local car thefts have increased 40 percent since 2005, prompting the department to change its policies to improve conditions.
DPS Chief Carey Drayton said this year’s increase in car thefts, which included robberies and small items from motor vehicles, means the department has more work to do.
“We’ve had a 40 percent increase in all areas on and surrounding the University Park Campus,” Drayton said. “This means we are not meeting our goal, but we have a couple of months left.”
There are five areas around campus broken down in beats or groups describing particular parking areas surrounding USC.
Beat A consists of the area within Grand Avenue, Coliseum Drive and Jefferson Boulevard.
This area had 33 percent fewer car thefts this year than in 2005.
Car thefts in Beat B — which meets Beat A halfway on campus and includes the areas on Jefferson and Exposition boulevards — have decreased by 56 percent.
For beats C and D, car thefts increased significantly between 2005 and 2006, rising 53 percent in Beat C and 238 percent in Beat D.
Beat C encompasses Grand, Jefferson and Hoover and 23rd streets. Beat D includes Adams and Jefferson boulevards, Hoover Street and Vermont Avenue.
Car thefts in Beat E, which covers Vermont, Jefferson and Normandie Avenue, have decreased 25 percent since 2005.
Drayton said the locations of beats C and D have a lot to do with the increase in the amount of thefts there.
“If you look at the area, there are no structures over there,” Drayton said. “They are all surface areas with alleys, all places where students find to park their cars so they can get away from (paid) parking.”
Drayton also said students who park on the streets are commonly robbed after exposing valuables people can see.
“Most of the things that are stolen are book bags,
I see Theft, page 3 I
Freshman setter Taylor Carico’s versatility provides the USC women’s volleyball team with many offensive options. 16
Students hack’ for class midterm
ITP students used hacking skills to defend own, infiltrate peers’ servers for midterm.
By LAURA SIMURDA
Staff Writer
When midterm season rolled around this year and most students were complaining about the exhausting nature of their exams, those in “Web Security” (ITP-325) were preparing for something more easily equated to a hacking competition with the goal of successfully infiltrating other groups’ servers.
The hands-on midterm, called “War Games,” forced students to utilize all of the hacking knowledge they acquired over the semester to defend their own server and attack others.
The five groups were split into two levels: advanced and moderate.
The two advanced groups attacked one another while three groups with less advanced students confronted each other.
Each group was judged on a point system based on how successfully they both protected their own server, which was supposed to represent an e-commerce site, and how effectively they undermined other students’ computers.
The project took about three hours, split into two class sessions, during which time the students became incredibly involved in the project, creating a tense atmosphere inside the room as they hacked in real time.
“Students would get very competitive because the objective of the
War Games is to win,” said Ashish Soni, program director for the USC Information Technology Program.
The two basic attacks utilized consisted of denial-of-service attacks and exploit attacks, said Ken Svensson, an undeclared junior. Denial-of-service attacks focus on constantly flooding a server, effectively making it so other individuals cannot see the site and e-mail cannot be sent or received.
Exploit attacks, or straight hacks, on the other hand, allow a student to fully infiltrate an enemy group’s system.
One such attack was successfully accomplished against Svensson.
He first lost control of his mouse and was then locked out of his computer when another student changed
I see Midterm, page 11 I
“(War Games) were fun. (It was) the most fun midterm that I’ve ever taken. ’’
CAROLYN
DEMPSEY
senior
commu-
nication
Alumnus gives $35 million to Viterbi
Department of electrical engineering named after Cogent Inc. co-founder.
By AMANDA SPRINGER
Contributing Writer
USC celebrated its largest depart-ment-naming gift ever Monday. The $35 million gift created the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering — a donation heralded as the largest to any engineering department in the country.
USC President Steven B. Sample announced the gift Monday at a lunch reception whose guests included students, faculty, trustees and alumni. Chairman of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Board of Councilors Dwight J. Baum and Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos both spoke at the event before Sample signaled for the new building banner to be unveiled. Hsieh himself then spoke to the crowd, saying he was "really honored and surprised” by the remarkable turnout
I see Hsieh. page 3 I
Michael Sugarman I Daily Trojan
Electric. Ming Hsieh (center) donated $35 million to name the department of electrical engineering and spoke Monday.with Yannis Yortsos (left), dean of engineering, and President Steven B. Sample.
INDEX
Student will laugh out loud with the latest edition of ’SComics. 10
Third annual skateboard contest hits Orange County. 8
N’ewjf Digest.......2 Lifestyle...,-........7
Upcoming..........2 Classifieds______12
Opinions............4 Sports...............16
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy. High 79, low 59.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 80, low 60.
Benefit concert helps Lebanese children
Proceeds from the USC-chapter sponsored event will aid relief work in Lebanon from the conflict with Israel.
By KELLY KIDWELL
Contributing Writer
A UNICEF@USC benefit concert at McCarthy Quad Friday has raised $7,000 and counting for Lebanese children impacted by this summer’s war between Lebanon and Israel.
Proceeds from the USC chapter-sponsored event, Voice of a Child: Uniting to Help the Children of Lebanon, went directly to UNICEF to aid relief work in Lebanon.
UNICEF(®USC raised most of the money the night of the event, but is still generating more money from T-shirt sales and corporate sponsors.
The benefit included a number of music performances, poetry
readings and speakers, as well as Lebanese food from Mediterranean Bakery and hookah donated by Fantasia Hookah Tobacco for purchase.
Among the performances were USC student bands Jubala and Robot Love, a capella group The Trojan Men and singer Kina Grannis.
“The bands all wanted to participate in another event with UNICEF and with each other,” said UNICEFl® USC President Christine Hameline, a senior majoring in international relations. “People had fun doing it and are excited to do another event. It’s really exciting to see that people were having a good time even though it was a somber topic.”
I see UNICEF, page 11 1
Steevens Alconcel I Daily Trojan
Rocking for a cause. USC band Jubala performed Friday night along with four other 'SC groups. The event raised more than $7,000.

UMTtOJU
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
www.dailytrojan.com
October 24,2006
Vol. CLIX, No. 44
Car thefts up, DPS refocuses
Car theft increased this year by 238 percent in one nearby area, decreased in others.
By SARAH SPRINGER
Staff Writer
Officials from the Department of Public Safety said local car thefts have increased 40 percent since 2005, prompting the department to change its policies to improve conditions.
DPS Chief Carey Drayton said this year’s increase in car thefts, which included robberies and small items from motor vehicles, means the department has more work to do.
“We’ve had a 40 percent increase in all areas on and surrounding the University Park Campus,” Drayton said. “This means we are not meeting our goal, but we have a couple of months left.”
There are five areas around campus broken down in beats or groups describing particular parking areas surrounding USC.
Beat A consists of the area within Grand Avenue, Coliseum Drive and Jefferson Boulevard.
This area had 33 percent fewer car thefts this year than in 2005.
Car thefts in Beat B — which meets Beat A halfway on campus and includes the areas on Jefferson and Exposition boulevards — have decreased by 56 percent.
For beats C and D, car thefts increased significantly between 2005 and 2006, rising 53 percent in Beat C and 238 percent in Beat D.
Beat C encompasses Grand, Jefferson and Hoover and 23rd streets. Beat D includes Adams and Jefferson boulevards, Hoover Street and Vermont Avenue.
Car thefts in Beat E, which covers Vermont, Jefferson and Normandie Avenue, have decreased 25 percent since 2005.
Drayton said the locations of beats C and D have a lot to do with the increase in the amount of thefts there.
“If you look at the area, there are no structures over there,” Drayton said. “They are all surface areas with alleys, all places where students find to park their cars so they can get away from (paid) parking.”
Drayton also said students who park on the streets are commonly robbed after exposing valuables people can see.
“Most of the things that are stolen are book bags,
I see Theft, page 3 I
Freshman setter Taylor Carico’s versatility provides the USC women’s volleyball team with many offensive options. 16
Students hack’ for class midterm
ITP students used hacking skills to defend own, infiltrate peers’ servers for midterm.
By LAURA SIMURDA
Staff Writer
When midterm season rolled around this year and most students were complaining about the exhausting nature of their exams, those in “Web Security” (ITP-325) were preparing for something more easily equated to a hacking competition with the goal of successfully infiltrating other groups’ servers.
The hands-on midterm, called “War Games,” forced students to utilize all of the hacking knowledge they acquired over the semester to defend their own server and attack others.
The five groups were split into two levels: advanced and moderate.
The two advanced groups attacked one another while three groups with less advanced students confronted each other.
Each group was judged on a point system based on how successfully they both protected their own server, which was supposed to represent an e-commerce site, and how effectively they undermined other students’ computers.
The project took about three hours, split into two class sessions, during which time the students became incredibly involved in the project, creating a tense atmosphere inside the room as they hacked in real time.
“Students would get very competitive because the objective of the
War Games is to win,” said Ashish Soni, program director for the USC Information Technology Program.
The two basic attacks utilized consisted of denial-of-service attacks and exploit attacks, said Ken Svensson, an undeclared junior. Denial-of-service attacks focus on constantly flooding a server, effectively making it so other individuals cannot see the site and e-mail cannot be sent or received.
Exploit attacks, or straight hacks, on the other hand, allow a student to fully infiltrate an enemy group’s system.
One such attack was successfully accomplished against Svensson.
He first lost control of his mouse and was then locked out of his computer when another student changed
I see Midterm, page 11 I
“(War Games) were fun. (It was) the most fun midterm that I’ve ever taken. ’’
CAROLYN
DEMPSEY
senior
commu-
nication
Alumnus gives $35 million to Viterbi
Department of electrical engineering named after Cogent Inc. co-founder.
By AMANDA SPRINGER
Contributing Writer
USC celebrated its largest depart-ment-naming gift ever Monday. The $35 million gift created the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering — a donation heralded as the largest to any engineering department in the country.
USC President Steven B. Sample announced the gift Monday at a lunch reception whose guests included students, faculty, trustees and alumni. Chairman of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Board of Councilors Dwight J. Baum and Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos both spoke at the event before Sample signaled for the new building banner to be unveiled. Hsieh himself then spoke to the crowd, saying he was "really honored and surprised” by the remarkable turnout
I see Hsieh. page 3 I
Michael Sugarman I Daily Trojan
Electric. Ming Hsieh (center) donated $35 million to name the department of electrical engineering and spoke Monday.with Yannis Yortsos (left), dean of engineering, and President Steven B. Sample.
INDEX
Student will laugh out loud with the latest edition of ’SComics. 10
Third annual skateboard contest hits Orange County. 8
N’ewjf Digest.......2 Lifestyle...,-........7
Upcoming..........2 Classifieds______12
Opinions............4 Sports...............16
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy. High 79, low 59.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 80, low 60.
Benefit concert helps Lebanese children
Proceeds from the USC-chapter sponsored event will aid relief work in Lebanon from the conflict with Israel.
By KELLY KIDWELL
Contributing Writer
A UNICEF@USC benefit concert at McCarthy Quad Friday has raised $7,000 and counting for Lebanese children impacted by this summer’s war between Lebanon and Israel.
Proceeds from the USC chapter-sponsored event, Voice of a Child: Uniting to Help the Children of Lebanon, went directly to UNICEF to aid relief work in Lebanon.
UNICEF(®USC raised most of the money the night of the event, but is still generating more money from T-shirt sales and corporate sponsors.
The benefit included a number of music performances, poetry
readings and speakers, as well as Lebanese food from Mediterranean Bakery and hookah donated by Fantasia Hookah Tobacco for purchase.
Among the performances were USC student bands Jubala and Robot Love, a capella group The Trojan Men and singer Kina Grannis.
“The bands all wanted to participate in another event with UNICEF and with each other,” said UNICEFl® USC President Christine Hameline, a senior majoring in international relations. “People had fun doing it and are excited to do another event. It’s really exciting to see that people were having a good time even though it was a somber topic.”
I see UNICEF, page 11 1
Steevens Alconcel I Daily Trojan
Rocking for a cause. USC band Jubala performed Friday night along with four other 'SC groups. The event raised more than $7,000.